Stax Music Academy To Perform Songs By B.B. King, Beyoncé And More
In honor of Black History Month, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and its Tennessee music academy are offering another virtual concert and tour.
The Memphis-based studio that produced music by soul legends like Otis Redding, The Staples Singers, Carla Thomas and others during the 1960s and ‘70s has been turned into a museum while Stax Music Academy, which resides next door, teaches music theory, business and performance to young students.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum offered a virtual concert and tours last year. More than 130,000 students and adults viewed the programs, Stax said in a news release, according to Billboard.
Stax says this year’s virtual concert will feature the Stax Music Academy students performing songs from B.B. King, Beyoncé, Duke Ellington, Ike & Tina Turner, The Pointer Sisters and Rufus Thomas.
“Even with the ongoing waves of the COVID virus and other events that continue changing the world by the day, our Stax Music Academy students still find a great deal of comfort and happiness in studying, creating, rehearsing, and performing music,” Pat Mitchell Worley, executive director of the Stax Music Academy, said, according to Billboard.
The achievements of Mavis Staples of the Staple Singers, former label owner Al Bell, songwriter and singer Bettye Crutcher, and Al Jackson Jr., the drummer of Booker T. & the M.G.’s will be the focus of the virtual tour.
Registration for the event is available here.
